Olympian Effort Raises $8,000

* Special Olympics California’s Snow Valley Easter carnival and ski race March 31 raised $8,000 for the California Special Olympics Winter Games. The event was emceed by Maclovio Perez of KCBS.

* Women’s Clinic netted $3,000 at its first wine and cheese fund-raiser at the clinic on Olympic Blvd. in Beverly Hills on April 22. Opened in 1972 to serve female patients’ medical and counseling needs, the clinic expanded its services to men in 1982. Proceeds of the benefit will be used for building improvements.

* Options House netted $100,000 at its gala, “The Wild West--Hollywood Style,” held April 23 at the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum. The money will be used for ongoing services, which include temporary housing and counseling for homeless youth.

* Children’s Charities annual gala at the Friars Club on April 24 raised more than $200,000. The Saul Breton Foundation contributed the proceeds to Almansor Education Center, Children’s Home Society, Tripod, Boy Scouts of America and United Friends of the Children, a support group for MacLaren Children’s Center. Neil Breton, Michael Geller and Bob Salka were co-chairmen.

* United Jewish Fund held a fund-raising dinner April 27 at the Warner Center Marriott Hotel, Woodland Hills. The event, sponsored by the San Fernando Valley Region Women’s Division of the Jewish Federation Council, netted $343,785 for ongoing support of humanitarian and social service programs in the Greater Los Angeles area, nationally and overseas. Dahlia Leibsohn chaired the event.

* The Speech Pathology Foundation, at its theater party and auction April 28 at Santa Monica Bay Women’s Club, netted $13,000. Proceeds will benefit the Imo Lucille Sundin Speech and Hearing Clinic in Santa Monica to help pay for speech therapy for needy adults and children. The event was chaired by Michael J. D’Asaro.

* Boy Scouts of America Los Angeles Council sponsored a benefit tribute dinner honoring thoroughbred trainer Charlie Whittingham for his contributions to horse racing and charitable causes April 30 at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The event netted $40,000 to be used for outreach programs to include in-school and after-class scouting for inner-city youth and scouting for the handicapped.

* Spare Change Project netted $20,000 at its bachelor auction benefit May 3 at the Bel Age Hotel where 250 women enjoyed an evening of fun bidding for a worthy cause. The Project’s Family Assistance Program will use proceeds to help rehabilitate homeless families. Linda Ford is Spare Change Project founder.

* The Constitutional Rights Foundation annual spring dinner held May 7 at the Century Plaza Hotel was attended by more than 1,000 guests. The event raised approximately $315,000. Alan I. Rothenberg, president of the State Bar of California, senior partner in the law firm of Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg and Phillips and past president of CRF, was honored with the Bill of Rights Action Award.